Finance & Economics
Faculty

John Griffin

Teaching and research
interests: Professor Griffin is the president and founder of Blue Ridge
Capital, a hedge fund company based in New York. From 1993 to 1996, he was
president of Tiger Management, which he joined in 1987 after two years as a
financial analyst in the merchant banking group of Morgan Stanley.

As an adjunct professor of finance at the
Columbia Business School, he teaches the seminar in Advanced Investment
Research. At the McIntire School of Commerce, Griffin taught Securities
Analysis and Idea Generation via videoconferencing as a visiting professor. In
the fall of 2001, he taught a seminar titled Practical Behavioral Finance to
students from the McIntire School and Darden. Griffin serves as a member of
the board of trustees of the McIntire School of Commerce.

In addition to his investment career,
Griffin is the founder and chairman of iMentor.org, a not-for-profit
organization that fosters mentoring relationships over the Internet. He is
also the founder and chairman of the Blue Ridge Foundation, a group dedicated
to improving education by making venture grants to start-up not-for-profit
organizations. Griffin is a sponsor and mentor in the Student Sponsorship
Program of New York as well as a patron and board member of Christ the King in
the South Bronx. Griffith is a board member for the Tiger Foundation, which
provides educational and social service grants in New York City and a member
of the board of directors of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinsonís
Research. In addition, he is a trustee of Monticello.